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14 October 2013

Feds Shutdown Military Mass

The
Catholic priest who serves this community has been prohibited from even
volunteering to celebrate Holy Mass without pay, and was told that if
he violated that order, he could be subject to arrest. Protestant
services continue to take place. Only Catholic services have been
shutdown.

NB. Only Catholic services are shutdown. . .NOT the Protestant services. This shows us who B.O. thinks the real enemy is.

8 comments:

The reason that the protestant services continue is that the protestant minister is probably full time military chaplain and falls under essential, while most Masses are run by contract priests. Pastors from parishes close by that say Mass at the base for a stipend. They are willing to volunteer which is great and its very petty that someone in command will not allow it. That same person probably wants to do the same to the protestants but they can't without firing an enlisted chaplain. Catholics make up the largest percentage of military enlisted, but we have the fewest enlisted chaplains. They rely on overflow from dioceses and religious orders which as you can guess are non-existant. Lord, send laborers into your harvest!

The shutdown is thanks to the tea party not Obama. Why doesn't the Thomas More letter state the reason of the military? Are there heating or airconditioning bills involved? Is there two buildings with chapels and one that has a permanent storage for the Eucharist is closed for budget/ heating reasons? Thomas More Center is a lawyer group. Lawyers only supply what benefits their argument...and many blogs are following this letter as though it were reportorial.

Several military friends of mine have indicated that these regs are "up for interpretation" and BO has decided to give them the interpretation that most hurts the Church. I don't pretend to understand the intricacies involved here. . .the courts no doubt will.

But then you think your readers need protection from other sources? Isn't that what gay militants are achieving in Canada....censoring Romans one. Yet when you censor, it's moral. No...it's not moral for them or you.

From the hyperlinked article: "...Fr. Leonard was locked out of his on-base office and the chapel,"

This really doesn't make sense. That base is large enough to have items such as the chaplains office in a nonsecure area where security requirements would be minimal at most. Fr. Leonard would just call up the chaplain's office and arrange for Joe Warmbody to let him into the office he'd been using. Simple and as easy as pie. The fact that he can't even get on the base (which any member of the general public can do by first going to the Security Office for a temporary pass) makes this sound like more than a knee jerk response to the ongoing idiocy in Washington. Either Fr. Leonard really ticked someone off at that base or somebody really high up the chain of command specifically targeted chaplains like him.